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After the creative team change, the book focused less on Power Girl's personal life, instead revolving around her heroic activities and how they affected her personal life, and also dealt with the reappearance of Maxwell Lord.

Girl power book series#

The series took a Lighter and Softer approach to the character and the DC Universe at large, at first focusing on Power Girl's attempts to reintegrate into living a normal life and forming a stable relationship with Terra. In her series, she reestablished her Secret Identity of Karen Starr and established the company Starrware, all the while mentoring Atlee, the new Terra, and trying to stop the Ultra-Humanite or really hot aliens from destroying New York. After issue #12 the original creative team left the series, replaced by Judd Winick and Sami Basri, and the series shifted both its visual and writing style. She was a member of the Justice Society of America and had her own comic book, started in 2009, originally written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and beautifully drawn by Amanda Conner. the cousin of the Earth-2 Superman (after reality got Cosmic Retconned again). After some silly retcons, including one period where she was vulnerable to 'natural, unprocessed materials,' Infinite Crisis and a Power Girl mini-series finally cleared up her origin by having her be. Power Girl still existed, but she was given a new origin as an Atlantean. Regularly appearing in the 12 first issues of said series, and occasionally turning up in subsequent ones.ДЄnd then Crisis on Infinite Earths hit and not only wasn't there an Earth-2 anymore, but Superman was now again the last Kryptonian. Karen did however become a founding member of Infinity, Inc. But in 1978, the DC Implosion struck, with the cancellation of over 24 ongoing titles. DC was considering launching a Power Girl series. She received solo stories in 'Showcase' #97-99 (February-April, 1978). Karen Starr, the name she adopted, proved a hit with readers.

It was decided to make her as different as possible from Supergirl - including a different costume, code-name, personality and (most notably) a sexier body. Power Girl was introduced as the counterpart of Supergirl- she was the cousin of Earth-2's Superman (Kal-L).

In issue #58 (January-February, 1976) a new character debuted, created by Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada, and Wally Wood. The '70s version of All-Star Comics, starring the Justice Society of America, featured the original versions of many of DC Comics' superheroes and their families, living in a parallel universe known as Earth-2. The OTHER Last Daughter of Krypton, the Last Daughter of Earth-2 and quite possibly Most Common Superpower incarnate.